Description: This pamphlet was distributed by the Ohio Fuel Gas Company (a subsidiary of Columbia Gas Company) during World War II. The pamphlet includes information on canning methods for vegetables and meats and advice on drying and freezing foods. It is 15 pages and measures 9" x 6" (22.86 x 15.24 cm). During World War II (1941-1945), many people supplemented the food they had available for personal use by planting vegetable gardens, both to support the war effort and due to food shortages and rationing. The gardens were promoted widely by the government and industry, and were known as "victory gardens" due to their importance to the war effort. Gardens were planted during World War I as well, but were called "war gardens" until the end of the war, when the term "victory garden" came into use. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3326_4624223_001
Subjects: Plants and Animals; Daily life; Agriculture; Military Ohio; World War II; Victory gardens; Canning and preserving
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: A country road in Champaign County, Ohio flanked by a wooden fence. The road curves towards a small barn in the distance. Adjacent to the road stands a large field of corn. Champaign County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. As of the 2000 census, the population was 38,890. Its county seat is Urbana. It takes its name from the French word for "open level country." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F05_008_1
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio--History--20th century; Roads; Rural life; Crops
Places: Champaign County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph, taken at Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's Indiana Harbor works coke plant, depicts a building with a flat area or courtyard in front of it. To the left of the image, another building with an almost entirely glass side can be seen. Coke plants produce coke from coal so that it can be used as a fuel in a blast furnace. Blast furnaces are used to smelt iron ore with coke to produce pig iron. This is the first step of steel production that occurs at mills. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B04F68_003
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. Indiana Harbor works; Steel industry; Coke plants
Places: East Chicago (Indiana)
 

Description: Workmen lay stone in shelter house walls. The photo was taken as part of Project No. 23, Public Campground Buildings. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: 3076_89_11_sep34_b9_03
Subjects: Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939, Fort Hill State Memorial (Ohio); Building; Stone
Places: Hillsboro (Ohio); Highland County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Ohio governor Frank J. Lausche. Lausche served one two-year term from 1945-1947, and four two-year terms as Governor of Ohio from 1949-1957. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS_5784
Subjects: Ohio Government; Presidents and Politics; Governors; Lausche, Frank John, 1895-1990
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio);
 

Description: Dated ca. 1935-1940, this photograph shows an unidentified white, carpenter-style church in Ohio, with a car parked in the front. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F01_014
Subjects: Churches; Religion in Ohio; Architecture; Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This image is a photograph of a cabinet card portrait of a woman. The cabinet card was propped against a rail or post before the photograph was taken. The unidentified woman in the cabinet card portrait is wearing a square-necked dress or blouse. Her hair is pinned back, but a loose curl hangs down the back of her neck. The photographer may have been Reverend Henry E. Cooke (1857-1915), son of the prominent American banker and financier Jay Cooke (1821-1905). Henry E. Cooke acted as his family's historian and photographer. He created or compiled poetry, sketches, humorous anecdotes, and several thousand photographs that documented three generations of the Cooke family. Henry E. Cooke graduated from Princeton and had his first posting at Trinity Church in Manchester, New Hampshire. He later became the head of the Episcopal Church in San Francisco. After only a year, he returned to Ohio and eventually became head of the Church in Cleveland, Ohio. He married Esther Clarkson Russell (1863-1945) and had two children, Henry Eleutheros Cooke (Harry) and Russell Cooke. Gilbert & Bacon, the portrait studio established by Philadelphia photographers Charles M. Gilbert (b. ca. 1848) and William F. Bacon (ca. 1843-1900), operated ca. 1874-ca. 1929. The firm specialized in celebrity portraiture and photographed actors, baseball players, and members of high society. Following the death of Bacon in 1900, the firm continued in business under the management of Gilbert and Bacon's son Frank T. into the early 20th century. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06292
Subjects: Cabinet photographs; Studio portraits; Portraits; Cooke, Jay, 1821-1905;
 

Description: National colors of the 115th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02095
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
 

Description: This photograph depicts a steelworker operating a crane. A Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway car is pictured in the photograph also. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B05F84_004
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway
 

Description: Official program of the West Virginia State vs. Wilberforce University football game played at the University of Detroit in Detroit, Michigan on Thanksgiving Day, November 20, 1941. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS6_B08F03_01
Subjects: Wilberforce University; Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Sports
Places: Wilberforce (University); Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio); Detroit (Michigan)
 

Description: Reverse reads in type: "Ritty Cash Register, no cash drawer." In script it reads: "Dayton, Ohio." Photograph is of a Ritty Cash Register. The register has two rows of buttons which are used to tally and record sales. When a transaction was completed, a bell rang on the cash register and the amount was noted on a large dial on the front of the machine. The first cash register was invented by James Ritty following the American Civil War. He was the owner of a saloon in Dayton, Ohio, and wanted to stop employees from pilfering his profits. Ritty and his brother John, a skilled mechanic, began working on a design for such a device. After several failed prototypes, the third design operated by pressing a key that represented a specific amount of money. There was no cash drawer. Instead, it simply recorded the number of sales and also the amount of each one. It was patented in 1883. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F07_025_1
Subjects: Cash register industry--United States--History; Cash registers--United States--History;
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1930-1939, this photograph shows a house built in 1834 by Frederick Baldwin in Hudson, Ohio, in Summit County. His daughter, Caroline Baldwin Babcock, established Hudson's first free library, located in this house. The house was attached to the Hudson Library and Historical Society until 2005, when the organization moved to a new location. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F11_025_001
Subjects: Architecture; Baldwin, Frederick, 1794-1880; Houses; Libraries; Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Hudson (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)